For years, people went looking for Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument No. 137: a Dutch-themed hot chocolate shop that was one of Ernest Batchelder’s earliest commissions. They came to a ...

The historic Dutch Chocolate Shop ... the shop that once specialized in hot chocolate is a city historic-cultural monument. The ground-floor space has survived more than a century of changing ...

So where hot cacao is ground directly from a cacao tree, hot chocolate is contingent on cacao first being made into chocolate — which traces back to Dutch chemist Coenraad Johannes van Houten.

Hot chocolate is an undeniable favorite when it ... silky instead of risking any grit from granulated. You can even add Dutch cocoa powder for a bit of extra chocolate-y flavor, but that's a ...